Walke Moor 2500 Router
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Small scale toolmaking is a hard road. I’ll wager they’re having problems getting acceptable castings with the porosity only evident when you’ve machined the base flat – and spent a fair bit of money on the casting. That casting looks to be a pretty thin base with all sorts of potential feeding issues. If only tool buyers were prepared to accept small pores in the base of the casting as an inevitable part of the casting process, he’d probably be able to get more “acceptable” tools out there in the market. Sadly everyone seems to want picture perfect ones – and that means more reject castings and a lot of cost in machining!
We had a post on this forum recently from a forum member with porosity in the base of the router that he picked up on the secondhand market – probably made by a former owner and a pattern-maker friend. By the current owners account it still works well despite the minor blemishes on the base of the tool.
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Mark30 November 2018 at 6:05 pm #553673Casting was an issue, which they discussed on their blog and Instagram account. At one point they offered tools with slight blems at a discount rather than pitching them them.
They talked about contracting with several foundries after the first production run.
(Caleb James has set up his own investment cast foundry as the way he deals with outsourcing problems)
The also had issues wth the fit of the collar. there were discusions on some fora about it requiring hand work and a couple tries to get the collar to Hold the cutter firmly enough.
2 December 2018 at 4:28 am #553694I think Caleb had failures originally also. But he seems to be on top the learning curve now.
Im not sure he could cast anything as large as the router.
his first effort was a nice little bullnose rebate planea link to the finished product in action is here:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BfO2gMmllCV/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=17k7y33oud6izthe wax investments are cast two at a time in a pretty small flask.
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You must be logged in to view attached files.2 December 2018 at 11:57 pm #553696And as we discuss this, a new batch goes up for sale this Saturday.
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bq5L-ruhB4y/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=9ji4py3os2au
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